Cobalt

Cobalt

Slow Forever

Profound Lore

***LIMITED re-pressing on Orange Vinyl & Clear Vinyl!!!!!!  Received an 8.4 rating from Pitchfork.  Since first collaborating with Profound Lore Records on their landmark 2007 release Eater of Birds, Colorado’s Cobalt have become recognized as one of the most singular contemporary American bands. Their 2009 album, Gin, is a pillar of extreme music, a milestone of progressive apocalyptic wasteland metal that took the scene by storm and landed on every “Best of the Year” list that matters. Nearly seven years since the release of Gin, Cobalt unleashes its long-awaited followup and one of the most anticipated metal releases of 2016. Slow Forever picks up right where its predecessor left off, as multi-instrumentalist / mastermind Erik Wunder returns triumphant after a period of personal turbulence, tragedy and contemplation, and new vocalist Charlie Fell (ex-Lord Mantis) brings a new level of savagery and violence to the group’s sound. An epic double-album clocking in at 86 minutes, Slow Forever is destined to leave its impact on the metal scene as the defining album of 2016.

Cobalt

Gin

Profound Lore

On 2007's Eater of Birds, Colorado's Cobalt set new standards for extreme underground blackened metal in the U.S. The unique opus of diseased avant-blackened violent ritualistic war metal set the underground scene aflame with its epic, atmospheric nature; no other album was quite like it.   The band gave their audience a glimpse of a new direction last year on the limited Landfill Breastmilk Beast EP. With Gin, the duo of Phil McSorley and Erik Wunder treads a darker path and carves out something with more depth and substance. This new album presents ten surreal, ritualistic observations on death, despair, and destruction, inspired by the writings of literary masters Ernest Hemingway and Hunter S. Thompson. Former Swans singer Jarboe once again lends her vocal talents, appearing on the tracks "A Clean Well Lighted Place" and "Pregnant Insect."  Like a churning maelstrom ready to engulf and level all in its wake, Gin comes across as an extreme blackened metal cousin of Swans, Neurosis, or Killing Joke. Cobalt proves once again that they are in their own realm, untouchable.

Cobalt

Landfill Breastmilk Beast

Profound Lore

With last year's Eater of Birds, Cobalt solidified their standing as one of the strongest forces in the North American black metal scene, unleashing a unique and epic work of avant-war-metal art that turned heads and unhinged jaws. What's more, it was the first extreme metal album to feature an appearance by ex-Swans singer Jarboe.  Their blood flowing strong, the Colorado duo builds anticipation for their next full-length with this limited-edition stopgap release, a glorified EP entitled Landfill Breastmilk Beast. Clocking in at over 50 minutes, the four-song CD previews new and exclusive Cobalt material--most notably the "Ritual Use of Fire" track in its entirety. Initially broken up into three acoustic interludes on Eater of Birds, the complete version of "Ritual Use of Fire" is an epic 35+ minute atmospheric/ambient journey through a landscape of desolation, loneliness, and desperation.   Landfill Breastmilk Beast also includes a new Cobalt track, "Stomach," which will appear on the upcoming full-length due out in 2009, a cover of "Extinction" by crust punk anarchists Nausea, and a hidden experimental track.

Cobalt

Eater Of Birds

Profound Lore

After many years Profound Lore Records is proud to release the proper vinyl edition of Cobalt’s seminal “Eater Of Birds” album (which some people claim as the best Cobalt album), the album that truly made the band a unique force to be reckoned within the US extreme metal scene. At the time (July 2007) there was no band in extreme metal doing what Cobalt were doing. This vinyl re-issue / edition is the defining vinyl version of “Eater Of Birds” (admittedly, a very inferior version by another label was previously released on vinyl many years ago), re-mastered as the way it was meant to be.